Who wouldn't love to dance if you could dance like that!

same for Reece ! and handsom as a filmstar :-)

Absolutely agree with you! 💘 ❤💙💜💖💗💘❤💙💜💖 😃😊🙂

And they are very beautiful too!

He lifts her like a feather because she's like a feather indeed XD Diets and so on... That's because he can lift her :)

@@okey-dokey6914 Not sure what an "XD Diet" is, but I don't think she'd have the energy to complete such a demanding pas de deux if she hadn't had her breakfast. Physically, dancers work very hard and just because she is slim doesn't mean she isn't strong and healthy and able to help her partner in the lifts.

Absolutely agreed

REECE IS amazing!!!! the top!!!!!

I agree, Marianela is a marvel. On that same level is Alina Samova. There are many videos featuring her on KZfaq. Lopatkina and Zakarova are also among the greats. Check them out if the spirit moves you.

What about Natalia Osipova, Alexandra Ferri, Olga Smirnova, …. I think it’s impossible to make a ranking, because there are quite a few wonderful ballerinas. They are all so different, but equally successful

@@mathildewesendonck7225 The dancers you mention are wonderful, if truth be told. But historically there is one ballerina who is considered one of the three greatest of the century and that is Maya Plisetskaya. Check her out on KZfaq as well as Wikipedia. There are also a number of DVDs devoted to her art.

I think 'She's One of the Best of the era. There are many who are absolutely incredible and each ballerina has their own unique style and qualities. 🥰💃

@@classicalaid1 of course I know who Plissetskaya is 😃 I was mentioning some living ballerinas, and I didn’t finish the list. The post above is about ballerinas „of our era“

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Like many South American women, she radiates warmth and an openhearted spirit. Here in the north, a different sensibility tends to prevail.

She excels no matter who shes with an absolute gem. Watch her rehearsal with William Bracewll another wonderful young dancer. No one exudes warmth and humour when required like she does.😊

I think her dazzling smile and connection to her partners ups their game--though his game is already very high indeed!

I agree 🌹😉

The only thing I'd say about the fish dives is that I think Balanchine meant for the ballerina to look up at her partner.

@@michaelsefi3790 Maybe, maybe not. Balanchine was known for never caring to preserve his choreography, and would change things with impunity to highlight the strengths of the dancer taking on a role new to them. It’s no wonder that today there are literally dozens of “definitive Balanchine version(s)” of any given pas de deux; because he created dozens of them .

@@avesraggiana Balanchine was not alone in changing choreography to suit particular dancers. While not on the same scale, while developing a piece Ashton was apparently notorious in changing choreography in mid-stream, as it were. And Petipa was apparently a past-master of the same. (As to that, the origin of the pdd is fascinating; After the initial performances of Swan Lake in 1877 in Moscow, a little later [a year or two?] a new dancer to the role of Odile wanted a pdd inserted in Act 3. [The big, today iconic, pdd with fouettes etc was only transferred from Act 1 to Act 3 by Petipa for the St Petersburg revival, if that's not a much too mild a word for what Petipa and Ivanov did to the ballet.] Apparently initially Minkus or Drigo composed for the interpolated pdd, but Tchaikovsky heard about the addition and insisted he should compose the music for it. The pdd was lost after the revision/re-choreographing in 1895 and only the music is said to have survived and was found by Balanchine in the 1950s in the Mariinsky archives. I love it as a piece of music - and don't much care if there are subtle or even overt choreographic changes as long as they enhance the piece...!)